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Originally posted by Zoltan:
What's your top 5 racial enemy?
In 1st level, I choosed undeads.
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Why undead? They're immune to most of the "racial enemy" bonuses, such as critical hits and some are incorporeal so they don't make noise and they're immune to mind influencing spells, so "taunt" bonsus won't work.
Here's a brief guidline:
Abberations - YES. This is a wide challenge-rating category of monsters and they're almost all tough and are almost always subject to everything your favored enemy feat will do.
Animals - NO. Animal empathy, dominate them, run them somewhere & leave them or have tem fight for you. Also, most animals are usually weak. Only Dire Animals are difficult in this area.
Beast - NO. A very small group of opponents. Not worth it.
Constructs - NO. They're like undead.
Dragons - Conditional YES. Except that dragons, and their relations, aren't as prolific enough (IMO) compared to the BG series where this category would have been perfect.
Elementals - NO. They're like undead.
Fey - NO. They're weak. If you have a problem with Fey creatures, pack up your game and sell it on ebay.
Giant - YES. And you'll use it quite a lot in Chapter 2.
Humanoids - (Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Goblinoids, Orcs, Reptilians, Halflings, Half-orcs, Humans). YES & NO. [img]smile.gif[/img] Humans could be a big YES. The others I'm less enthused about, though half-orcs would really help in Chapter 1, for the prison.
Magical Beasts - YES. There may not always be a lot, but it is a huge category AND it includes ALL SUMMONED CREATURES.
Monsterous Humanoids - NO. They're usualy weak and are almost not present in the first two chapters. (Yuan-ti & minotaurs)
Outsiders - YES. BUT NOT until the end game. How many Balors will you see at level 1? And if you do, I think your racial enemy choice bonus will be the least of the things on your mind...
Shapechangers - Conditional YES. There are a TON of them in Chapter 2.
Vermin - YES. There are a lot of them in Chapters 1 & 2, and they pose a lot of difficulties for your ranger.
What I have chosen so far (in order) with my ranger: Vermin, Magical Beasts, Giants. At level 15 I'll take what seems to be appropriate for the range of enemies I'll be facing.